Microsoft is not going to stand on the sidelines when it comes to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. They have given 40 engineers the daunting task of getting Windows XP running on the OLPC (a.k.a. XO project), which is equipped with a 433MHz processor, 256MB or RAM, and a 1GB flash drive. The biggest chores they face is getting XP to fit on

Back in April we wrote about Peepel which at the time was a new online-office startup.  They offer a spreadsheet and word processor that look near identical to Office 2007. Considering they haven't updated their blog since August, I'm guessing things aren't going so well for them and they aren't really updating the service. Now there's yet another online office application option launching out there called Live Documents which once again, looks a

A few weeks back I finally broke down and bought the ESET Smart Security suite (review). I needed two licenses for it, and I decided to just buy the two-year subscription up front so that I could take advantage of the extra savings. In the end my total came out to $103.99, but it was worth it for two licenses and two years

I think the image above that I put together sums things up quite well. Virus Bulletin did another "in the wild" test to see how many of the best antivirus solutions available would be able to catch every known virus they threw at it. Normally out of the 30+ apps that are tested 5 or 6 of them fail, but this time around over 50%

Keyboard shortcuts are considered by some to be the next best thing since sliced bread. It can increase productivity and save you time by keeping you from reaching for the mouse anytime you need to do something. I don't know about you, but I can't imagine not having shortcuts for things like copying and pasting, or undoing something. Originally keyboard shortcuts were only offered in desktop applications, but they've made their way into online applications

Microsoft has officially confirmed that a Release Candidate of Vista SP1 (build 6001.17052.071129-2315) will be made available to the public next week, but there was no word on exactly what day it's going to drop. Presumably it will be on Tuesday, December 11th which coincides with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Yesterday Microsoft Connect members had the pleasure of downloading the Release Candidate, and today MSDN

Early this year in January, Yahoo announced that they had designed a new messenger from the ground up just for use with Windows Vista. They wanted to take advantage of all the new features specific to Vista like the display and user interface, as well as Vista's Windows Presentation Foundation. The previews looked awesome and the list of features was sure impressive, but it's been almost a year now and we hadn't heard anything